Depending on what people do, the government already has their fingerprints.

Personally, I work around schools so I had to get a background check and fingerprinted for that. I also am licensed to handle explosives, both federally and at the state level. I been fingerprinted for that. I’ve gone through TSA for hazmat endorsement on a commercial driver’s license. That needed fingerprints and a background check.

Getting fingerprinted to get through airport security is the least of my privacy concerns.

But my threat model isn’t the TSA. They aren’t a concern of mine, although I do opt out of their facial recognition.

I am concerned with internet surveillance, corporate surveillance, and communication surveillance.

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I want a replica of the ocarina from Lunar: A Silver Star Story.

It’s such a beautiful instrument.

Where it gets strange is that there are actually an equal number of multiverse that have a version of you as there are that do not contain a version of you.

For the sake of simple math, let’s assume that there are an infinite number of multiverses and that the amount of those which contain a version of you is 1/10th.

So let’s take the amount of multiverses and divide them by ten. What do we get? Infinity.

It’s like trying to say there are fewer rational numbers between 1 and 2 than there are between 2 and 10. The number is always infinite.

Ombi or Overseerr (I prefer Overseerr) will let them do requests automatically. Overseerr uses Plex logins so you don’t need to manage additional passwords for them.

I’ve pared mine down a lot. The biggest hurdle for me has been storage.

It used to be 5 2u servers running a ceph cluster, but that got to be expensive and unruly.

Now it’s mainly a small half depth supermicro for my firewall, a half depth supermicro for home assistant, a 2u Dell for unraid, and a small NAS.

Unraid houses Plex and the *arrs. Along with a handful of other useful services like immich.

I do colo a 1u HP though that houses my pbx, web server, unifi controller, jirai server, nextcloud, email, and a bunch of other servers that I run.

Now, I’ve got a lot of spare hardware though. 7 Dell 1u servers, 2 Dell 2u, a supermicro 3u, an HP 2u and a bunch of things clients that I might turn into replacements for my rokus.

It’s not particularly hard to open and disconnect the Wi-Fi antenna. But it probably voids the warranty.

I’m not excited for the day they realize that HDMI allows the transmission of network traffic through the device it’s plugged into.

Why that’s in the design, I don’t know. But I also don’t understand why HDMI has fucking DRM built into it.

You can look into “hospitality” tvs. The ones used in hotels and the like. Those can be better.

I’m getting flashbacks to Counter Strike. It’s been a long time since I’ve thought of sprays in games.

In apartments space is super limited. I get that.

But when you own an entire house sometimes you want a place to invite friends and family to come in to town. It’s nice to to have a place for them without having them pay to stay at a hotel. It’s for people who like to entertain and have visitors.

Remember that houses were much cheaper back then and space wasn’t as limited.

I have no doubt they can do it.

I don’t think they should be in control of our communication though. I don’t trust them with my privacy or not to use it to exert political control over the people.

I want regulations. A government willing to set rules and to enforce those rules.

But how can they turn the customer info and behaviour into revenue if they don’t collect it? Won’t someone think of the bottom line?! /s

This comes into the design and requirements for your services.

If they need to be public ally available to more than just you, you’ll want a reverse proxy and appropriate firewall rules. You’ll also need to make sure things stay updated and security hardening is done on the servers and the proxy.

If you just need yourself to access things and they don’t need full access from public internet, you want a VPN. Tailscale is pretty easy. Wireguard is a bit of work to set up, but can make for a good always on VPN for your devices to connect back into your home network to access what you want.

There are certain things like SSH that you really don’t want publically accessible over the internet. Even with fail2ban and all the security hardening, it’s just a headache and pointless traffic you’ll deal with as people try to get in anyway.

Honestly, I am just so curious about your threat model that you are considering this for self hosting.

Imagine if our lawmakers would take the time to make giving up legal recourse in contracts illegal. Not just unenforceable, but just having it in the terms be an immediate, actionable violation.

Last I looked at it, it was like having a safe. They can take the safe and break in.

If the safe is locked by a key. They can subpoena a key since it’s a physical object. It’s something you have, not something you know. If you’re phone is locked by biometrics, it’s something you have. They can force you to give them something you have.

If the safe is locked with a combination, they cannot force you to talk. You have the right to remain silent and the right not to incriminate yourself. If your phone is locked with a pin or passcode, it’s a similar concept.

However, things get murky, because if we stay with the safe analogy, and they know you have a specific document or item in that safe. They can subpoena that specific document and you may be compelled to provide the document, although maybe not the combination.

Anyway, long story short. Shit is weird and not cut and dry.

My more recent experience has been this comes from using residential ISP IPs or cloud provider IPs. These are almost always just permanently in a grey list because AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and digital ocean instances are so quick, cheap, and easy to setup and cycle through IPs on.

My colo provided IP block hasn’t had any issues sending emails.

Personally, I don’t care about nudity.

My concerns are with normalizing hypersexualization. Both in the way that it turns normal nudity into some erotic situation which leads to nursing mothers being explicit and in the way it teaches people, and in particular children, that behaviour towards sex workers is normal behaviour to have when dealing with people outside of sex work. Including those sex workers.

Having some gate between regular content and erotic content can help establish a line that easy for people, and children, to understand. If a streamer doesn’t turn off the camera to change and he or she is nude on stream, I don’t care about. If a streamer does a strip tease for the outfit change, I’d want a separation or warning. I don’t think it should be blocked, but sexualization and nudity are different things and should be treated differently. Sexuality should be a very opt-in process.

You know, just every app that isn’t installed via play store. It’s “deceptive” because Google isn’t making a buck off it.

This isn’t a website asking for permission. It’s the browser exe itself.

This seems like the bare minimum permissions for a web browser.